Other powertrain problem on the 2015 Ford Expedition
2 crashes 2 of the 17 reports for this failure mention a crash, a fire, an injury or a death. Those are the owner's words on the complaint form, not a verified finding, and one report can mention more than one.
When other powertrain problem gets reported
Owners of the 2015 Ford Expedition report other powertrain problem at a median of 55,000 miles. A quarter of the reports come in before 45,000 miles and a quarter after 100,000 miles, from 10 reports that carried an odometer reading.
A part like this is normally expected to survive 92,000 miles. It is the 4th most-reported problem on this model year.
The mileage distribution
The reported range runs from 35,000 miles at the tenth percentile to 120,000 miles at the ninetieth, a spread of 82,900 miles across the middle 80% of reports.
When the reports scatter this far, the mileage is telling you about how these cars were driven more than about the part itself.
0% of the dated reports were filed under 36,000 miles.
The whole distribution
| 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 36,900 miles | 47,000 miles | 54,003 miles | 100,322 miles | 119,800 miles |
Read the 10th percentile as “one report in ten arrived this early”. Exact figures are shown in this table because it is the table of record; everywhere else on the site they are rounded to the precision the sample can carry.
What a percentile can and cannot tell you here
These five numbers describe the readings owners gave, in order. The median is the middle one: half the reports arrived below it. The 10th and 90th are the edges of the bulk of the distribution, and the distance between them is the part worth reading. A tight spread — say 70,000 to 95,000 miles — points at something that wears out on a schedule, and the schedule is knowable. A wide one, 20,000 to 190,000, points at a fault that hits some cars and never troubles others, which means the mileage on the listing in front of you tells you very little about your odds.
What these figures are not is a survival curve. Every reading here comes from a car whose owner filed a complaint, so the sample contains only failures: it cannot say what share of the fleet made it past 150,000 miles untouched, because those owners had nothing to report. Nor is the mileage the moment of failure — it is the odometer reading as recalled at the time of filing, which may be weeks later and is sometimes rounded to the nearest ten thousand by the person typing it.
Percentiles are shown at all only once 8 readings exist for the vehicle and mode. Below that the middle of a handful of numbers is noise wearing a decimal point, so the figures are withheld rather than dressed up.
What happens, and what it costs
Of these reports, 2 a crash is mentioned. Owners write their own complaints and the agency does not verify them, so read this as what the reports say happened rather than as a confirmed count.
Putting it right typically runs $400–$4,500 at an independent US shop. That range is an editorial estimate held in this site's failure-mode catalogue, not a figure from NHTSA, and it is a repair cost rather than a diagnosis cost.
The same failure on other years
The same failure is reported on 25 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2007, at a median of 10,000 miles, and latest on the 2014 at 130,000 miles.
By volume the 2020 carries the most reports, with 151; the 2015 has 17. A mode that appears across most years of a model is usually a design choice rather than a bad batch.
If one year stands out to the left, that is the year to avoid; if the whole line sits at a similar mileage, this is wear rather than a defect in one production run.
Tick median reported mileage Solid middle half of reports Faint 10th to 90th percentile Colour how bad the failure is when it happens
What owners wrote
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint narratives, trimmed for length. The mileage is the one the owner gave.
While driving at highway speeds (70 MPH), went to pass traffic, truck downshifted, service transmission light came on and truck lost all power. Transmission was stuck in 4th gear and engine would not rev above idle. Pulled over and shut off truck. Restarted and everything was normal. A few days later same thing happened again, this time was on a city street (20mph) and trans was stuck in 3rd gear.
I was driving down a steep grade and all of a sudden the vehicle started to jerk and shake, the wrench symbol popped up as well as a warning see owners manual. As I safely got off the road I had waited for cars to pass by before I tried to re emerge onto the road and there was no response to a full press of the gas pedal and the vehicle would only go approx. 1 mile hr. I turned the car off and was about to call a tow truck and I decided to turn the vehicle back on and I put it in drive and it let me drive with no issues. After my incident I went home to google the symptoms it appeared to be a common problem with ford vehicles. How ever under the customer satisfaction program my vehicle was not listed but yet has the same issues. I would like to start an investigation in this matter as same other consumers might not be as skillfully of a driver as myself and possibly cause injury or death over this issue.
Defective electronic throttle body control systems that cause the vehicles to suddenly and dangerously lose power. While traveling 70mph on highway, my vehicle suddenly lost power, (orange wrench light appeared on dash).
Also reported on the 2015 Ford Expedition
Other electrical problem
Other engine problem
Other fuel system problem
Blower motor or climate control failure
Other speed control problem
Other driver assistance problem
How far this goes
Complaints are voluntary, so 17 is a floor and not a count of affected cars. Mileages are typed in by owners and cluster on round numbers. And the mode itself is assigned by software reading the complaint text, which is reliable in bulk and fallible one report at a time.
Questions this page answers
At what mileage does other powertrain problem happen on the 2015 Ford Expedition?
Across 10 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 55,000 miles. A quarter were filed before 45,000 miles and a quarter after 100,000 miles. These are the mileages owners reported when they complained, not a prediction for any individual car.
How common is other powertrain problem on the 2015 Ford Expedition?
17 reports have been filed with NHTSA, about 0.5 per 1,000 vehicles. Complaints are voluntary, so this is a floor rather than a count of affected cars.
What this is and is not. These are the mileages at which owners chose to complain to a federal agency, which is not the same as the mileage at which the part fails on every car. It skews toward failures that happened outside warranty, cost real money, or frightened someone. It is still the only public dataset that carries failure mileage at all, and the shape of a few hundred readings is informative even when a single one is not. Methodology · JSON · this failure on other cars
Source Owner complaints and recall records published by the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, model years 1996–2027 Figures rebuilt Published by AtWhatMileage How every figure is computed